Peter will join the Chemical Engineering department at UMass-Amherst as an Assistant Professor in January 2018. Research in the group will focus on interfacial soft matter, where we apply fundamental principles to understand and engineer interfacial processes central to biology and colloid science. Peter comes to UMass from ETH Zurich, where he has been conducting postdoctoral research developing new experimental methods and analysis techniques to study the biophysics of model cell membranes and also investigating strategies to engineer foam and emulsion stability. Prior to ETH, he earned his BS degree from the University of Pennsylvania before completing his PhD at the University of Delaware, both in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. His doctoral research focused on the electrokinetics and self-assembly of colloidal suspensions for photonic and phononic applications.